If u can’t summarise ur research in a tweet u need to do a lot more work on ur question #ucldh#tweetyourthesis

which sparked some debate on the possibility and desirability of expressing a major research question in 140 characters or less.

To widen discussion out to members of the department who are not in UCLDH but are active on twitter, yesterday morning I tweeted from the UCLDIS Student account, asking our students to take up the challenge:

If you’re a UCLDIS research student or PhD alumnus and haven’t tweeted yet (or if I’ve accidentally missed your tweet), comment here, @, DM or # UCLDISstudents and I’ll add you to the summary here. As Claire Warwick has put it

Iâ€™ve gone ahead and bookmarked http://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/dis-studentblog/2012/01/13/ucldis-goes-viral/ at Digg.com so my friends can see it too. I simply used DIS Student Blog » Blog Archive » UCLDIS Goes Viral as the entry title in my Digg.com bookmark, as I figured if it is good enough for you to title your blog post that, then you probably would like to see it bookmarked the same way